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So, yesterday I got a 4-page, single-spaced, physically mailed, paper hate letter from the head of the CO Public Defender’s Training Director. Backstory: Earlier this year at their request I did a FREE (pro bono) legal consult/expert witness testimony for one of their indigent clients charged with MURDER & MANSLAUGHTER. Normally I charge a minimum […]

A masked aggressor arguing with two men appears to pretend to be presenting a knife, when one of his two victims decides to take decisive defensive action against the mere APPEARANCE of threat. Lawful? Let’s take a look at the video of this use-of-force event and talk about it! Join me at Noon ET on

A motorcyclists riding amidst a crowd of others in Philadelphia got angry enough with a car driver that he decided to jump on the car’s rear window and smash it into the vehicle. Would the occupants of that car have been legally justified in simply shooting that motorcyclists dead? What if that same motorcyclists had

A Texas driver fails to proper return his shopping cart, and is aggressively approached by a “CartNarc” activist who chides the driver and attempts to place an embarrassing magnet on the driver’s vehicle. The driver responds by pulling out a pistol and cycling the slide, causing the activist to prudently flee. Lawful threat of deadly

Last Thursday a delivery man was acquitted in the shooting of a prankster who confronted him in a mall. The prankster never presented a weapon, so how could the delivery man’s use of deadly defensive force have been reasonable self-defense? In fact, there are at least SIX FACTORS in this shooting that are highly consistent with lawful

Several folks have frantically sent me a video clip of President Donald #Trump giving a speech in which it is said that he advocates that #looters be summarily shot. In fact, the video clip is more nuanced than that summary suggests, but I thought it interesting to enough to warrant an unplanned Law of Self

Earlier this week I read the 71-page decision of Judge Roger Benitez, a Federal trial court judge, in holding (FOR THE SECOND TIME) that California’s standard-capacity magazine violates the Second Amendment. Obviously, the gun controllers are losing their minds over this decision, and so it was well-anticipated that the California Attorney General, Bonta, would appeal

This is part 2 of 2 of our discussion/reading of Duncan v. Bonta. Last week US District Court (Federal) Judge Roger Benitez handed down a ruling that California’s ban on standard capacity magazines for firearms is unconstitutional. While this conclusion is simply obvious common sense, Judge Benitez was kind enough to explain the underlying constitutional

Yesterday a judge dropped all charges, including murder, against former Philly police officer Mark Dial over the August 14 shooting death of non-compliant suspect Eddie Irizarry. The immediate result was rioting and widespread looting throughout Philadelphia. We have the full unedited body worn camera (BWC) footage of both officers involved in the encounter with Irizarry,

Last week US District Court (Federal) Judge Roger Benitez handed down a ruling that California’s ban on standard capacity magazines for firearms is unconstitutional. While this conclusion is simply obvious common sense, Judge Benitez was kind enough to explain the underlying constitutional reasoning behind this conclusion in a wonderfully-written 75-page decision that’s loaded to the